one of the biggest suprises here in germany last year was the public protest and the civil disobedience that was sparked by a mega-project named "Stuttgart21". i went to the building site in August, and took pictures of the construction fence which had turned into a symbol of protest.
one mini-poster someone put up there carried a quote from Gandhi, in green print:
"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win."
fast forward to November: in the web, i came across the "Enpipe Line Project" - an open online project of collaborative poetry written in resistance to a Canadian pipeline project and other projects like it around the planet. curious, i mailed with the Enpipe organisator Christine Leclerc, and then put a feature for Daily s-Press together: The Enpipe Line.
later, i wrote a contribution for the Enpipe Line - a poetic reflection on the happenings at the Stuttgart21 building site which took some surprise turns. the poem is now online, images of the fence included:
They Thought
They thought people would go on with their daily life as always
when they put up the fences at the railway station
to prepare the construction of their mega project...
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also included in the enpipe line is Daniela Elza - in earth dreams (i think that's how i arrived at Enpipe).
(if you have both Firefox and IE on your computer, visit the page in Firefox, to see the flow of the line)
1 comment:
Awesome. Thanks Dorothee, for spreading the word to the other side of the world. And thank you for contributing your words to the mileage, or as we should be saying in Canada "the kilometre-age.
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